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Yes, indeed, the MacOS uses CR-delimited text files. We do quite a bit of out markup production on Macs, with content management on MS-Windows PCs (though that is moving to Linux/GNU machines). So we deal with all three common flavors of text file delimiters. Expat implements the XML 1.0 spec correctly (i discovered this the hard way, when Expat reported offsets that were different that i expected in my CRLF-delimited files). John Cowan got to this earlier today, but to amplify his point... The following excerpt is from Tim Bray's truly excellent annotated XML 1.0 Specification (http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm or http://www.xml.com/axml/target.html to omit the explanation frame). ======= Begin spec excerpt ======= 2.11 End-of-Line Handling XML parsed entities are often stored in computer files which, for editing convenience, are organized into lines. These lines are typically separated by some combination of the characters carriage-return (#xD) and line-feed (#xA). To simplify the tasks of applications, wherever an external parsed entity or the literal entity value of an internal parsed entity contains either the literal two-character sequence "#xD#xA" or a standalone literal #xD, an XML processor must pass to the application the single character #xA. (This behavior can conveniently be produced by normalizing all line breaks to #xA on input, before parsing.) ======= End spec excerpt ======= <rant original_post_to="Z3950IW"> <excerpt> ..much of the internet is still constrained by Unix's feeble 7-bit character TTY legacy. This latter issue is echoed in Java's lack of _unsigned_ bytes (!), and XML's auto-conversion of CRLF-delimited text records to LF-delimited records (yet another legacy/bias from Unix). </excerpt> <question> Is there historical basis to the above statement? It was a deduction based upon the old Xenix "text mode" I/O and the probability that most of the developers of the XML standard were based in the Unix world. </question> </rant> Regards, -Nik O, Content Mgmt Solutions, Jackson, Wyo. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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